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Question reference: S6W-31209

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 26 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the number of emergency bed days that have been allocated to patients as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in each year since 2021, also broken down by NHS board.

Table 1 shows the total number of bed days for patients with a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who had a non-elective admission and were discharged between 2021-22 and 2023-24, broken down by health board of treatment.

Table 1: Number of non-elective4 bed days for COPD3 continuous inpatient stays2

Financial year	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
NHS Health Board of Treatment	Bed Days
Golden Jubilee	6	0	4
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	8,341	10,449	11,673
NHS Borders	1,690	2,321	1,491
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	2,862	3,495	3,860
NHS Fife	4,334	4,579	3,892
NHS Forth Valley	4,242	3,926	4,668
NHS Grampian	5,009	6,168	6,767
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	29,376	39,239	35,491
NHS Highland	3,144	5,452	4,260
NHS Lanarkshire	12,966	14,339	15,711
NHS Lothian	10,073	9,787	11,358
NHS Orkney	69	140	241
NHS Shetland	72	198	275
NHS Tayside	5,006	5,457	5,599
NHS Western Isles	677	574	488
Scotland1	87,932	106,183	105,822

Source: SMR01, Public Health Scotland, extract: November 2024.

Scotland totals include all activity submitted to PHS. This includes some non-NHS provider activity. Due to this the Scotland total may be greater than the sum of all health board activity.
Continuous Inpatient Stay Methodology:

A patient's entire continuous stay in a hospital setting is referred to as a Continuous Inpatient / Day Case Stay ('CIS'). A CIS is an unbroken period of time that a patient spends as an admitted patient in a hospital setting. A CIS combines all the episodes that occur during a continuous stay in hospital, including transfers between clinicians, specialties and hospitals.

The data provided is based on COPD recorded as the main discharge diagnosis (ICD10 codes J40 – J44) for continuous inpatient stays.

1. Discharge Diagnosis - From last/discharging episode of the CIS

Non – elective admission type includes admission type 20-22, 30-36 and 38-39. More information on admission types can be found here: Admission Type

More information on SMR01 data terms can be found here: SMR01 - General/Acute Inpatient and Day Case

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